Claire Simpson. Irish News. Belfast.Monday, March 18, 2019IN the end, most of us could have predicted that the Bloody Sunday case would turn out to be another fudge.The decision to prosecute just one former British soldier over the killing of two of the 13 dead smacks heavily of compromise.The civil rights march on January 30, 1972, […]

Fr. McManus on Faux Shock About Mary Lou and “ England Get Out of Ireland”Banner Not only that but using “England” as distinct from Britain makes the point that Wales and Scotland can hardly be blamed for the mistreatment and later in 1920 for the partition of Ireland. Furthermore, there is no way the Unionists/Protestants […]

Fintan O’Toole. Irish Times. Dublin. Saturday, March 16, 2019The British prime minister doesn’t cut it as a tragic figure. Instead, stuck in Brexit chaos partly of her own making, she has had the overweening ambition of a mini-MacbethTheresa May always made much of her devotion to the cricketer Geoffrey Boycott. She campaigned unsuccessfully for the former England and Yorkshire batsman to […]

Bill Bigelow @IrishCentral. March 17, 2019 A family who’ve been evicted from their home in Ireland by the British. NLI Sadly, today’s corporate textbook-producers are no more interested in feeding student curiosity about the poverty and inequality that drove the famine than were British landlords interested in feeding Irish peasants “Wear green on St. […]